Useful Links
There is a community of scholars and activists working to both understand the impact of capitalism on society, and to organize resistance in order to bring about a positive change in society. We welcome any suggestions for additional links, and suggestions of journals to include in the list on the right. Please send all comments to David Fasenfest.
Economy and Psychology
"The podcasts and blogs produced by a psychotherapist and an economist to explore how the twin crises of the US economy and our psychology interact today. The interaction of economy and psychology helps to determine our society and our individuality even as these topics remain loaded with taboos, confusions, ignorance, and fear preventing us from asking big questions and daring to discuss big answers."
Sociologists for Women in Society
"Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) works to improve women's lives through advancing and supporting feminist sociological research, activism and scholars. We are a nonprofit, scientific and educational organization with more than 1,000 members in the United States and overseas."
Raewyn Connell
"Connell's commentary and reflections about her work on Theory, Intellectuals, Gender & Sexuality, Masculinities, Class and Education. Insights into the work of one of our major intellects."
Critical Theory of Religion
"For those engaged in critical research on religion."
Professor Richard Wolff
"Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. He also teaches classes regularly at the Brecht Forum in Manhattan."
Capitalism is Over! If you want it
" Senator Bernie Sander's Guide to Corporate Freeloaders "
Historical Materialism
"Historical Materialism is a Marxist journal, appearing four times a year, based in London. Founded in 1997, it asserts that, notwithstanding the variety of its practical and theoretical articulations, Marxism constitutes the most fertile conceptual framework for analysing social phenomena, with an eye to their overhaul."
Occupy Wall Street
" The resistance continues as Liberty Square and Nationwide. Information can be found about this and related actions of social protest. Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants. "
Union for Radical Political Economy
"The Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) is an interdisciplinary association devoted to the study, development and application of radical political economic analysis to social problems."
Mother Jones: Occupy Wall Street
" Useful information and a map tracking how Occupy Wall Street spreads nationwide. "
Association of Black Sociologists
"Established in 1970, the Association of Black Sociologists is a professional organization of scholars, practitioners, and community leaders interested in advancing social scientific inquiry and research, teaching, service, and activism. "
Mother Jones: Inequality Data
"A useful resource and teaching aid on the nature and extent of social inequality in graphic and table format. "
Society for the Study of Social Problems
"Founded in 1951, the Society for the Study of Social Problems promotes research on and serious examination of problems of social life. The SSSP works to solve these problems and to develop informed social policy."
Marx and Engels Internet Archive
A free digital archive, which includes correspondence between Marx and Engels among other items.
Occasional Links & Commentary
" A blog on economics, culture & society by David Ruccio, Professor of Economics "at large" as well as a member of the Higgins Labor Studies Program and Faculty Fellow of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and the editor of the journal Rethinking Marxism from 1997 to 2009. "
Conference of Socialist Economists
"The Conference of Socialists Economists (CSE) is an international, democratic membership organisation committed to developing a materialist critique of capitalism, unconstrained by conventional academic divisions between subjects. "
